A Companion to the Ancient Novel - Cueva, Edmund P.; Byrne, Shannon N.
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Cleverly bisecting the over-extension and highly focused specialism of other texts on the ancient novel, this edited collection features the most up-to-date international scholarship and offers an invaluable survey of the classical world's prototypical achievements in narrative fiction. It includes chapters on individual classical authors such as Petronius, Xenophon and Apuleius, as well as thematic analysis deploying offering varied theoretical perspectives. This comprehensive and accessible work promises to be an important resource for students and scholars of the ancient novel.
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Cleverly bisecting the over-extension and highly focused specialism of other texts on the ancient novel, this edited collection features the most up-to-date international scholarship and offers an invaluable survey of the classical world's prototypical achievements in narrative fiction. It includes chapters on individual classical authors such as Petronius, Xenophon and Apuleius, as well as thematic analysis deploying offering varied theoretical perspectives. This comprehensive and accessible work promises to be an important resource for students and scholars of the ancient novel.
This companion addresses a topic of continuing contemporary relevance, both cultural and literary.

Offers both a wide-ranging exploration of the classical novel of antiquity and a wealth of close literary analysis
Brings together the most up-to-date international scholarship on the ancient novel, including fresh new academic voices
Includes focused chapters on individual classical authors, such as Petronius, Xenophon and Apuleius, as well as a wide-ranging thematic analysis
Addresses perplexing questions concerning authorial expression and readership of the ancient novel form
Provides an accomplished introduction to a genre with a rising profile
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Autorenporträt
Shannon N. Byrne is Professor of Classics at Xavier University. Edmund P. Cueva is Professor of Classics and Humanities at the University of Houston-Downtown. Together, they have coedited several books, including of Authors, Authority and Interpreters in the Ancient Novel: Essays in Honor of Gareth L. Schmeling (with J. Alvares, 2006), Longus: Text, Commentary and Vocabulary (2005), and Humor and Classical Literature (2002).